Hadoop

Blog| by Avi Patwardhan

Financial services and banking are data-driven. Organizations in these industries store and analyze data on millions of...

Financial services and banking are data-driven. Organizations in these industries store and analyze data on millions of customers, this data valued in the billions. As a consequence, they have to struggle with ever increasing volumes, velocity and variety of data. To stay...

Emory University Hospital collects and analyzes intensive care unit patient data in near-real time, speeding the delivery of potentially lifesaving insight by 95 percent or more, when it engages IBM and IBM Business Partner Excel Medical Electronics to deploy an IBM...

Big Data Education

Big Data & Analytics Heroes

"Every day we’re able to personalize the consumer’s path to a purchase through mobile, online and in-store networks,...

"Every day we’re able to personalize the consumer’s path to a purchase through mobile, online and in-store networks, including doing real-time scoring of a shopping basket at the supermarket checkout," says Kelly Carrigan, VP of data warehouse and infrastructure at Catalina...

This week's Big Data & Analytics Hero, John Naduvathusseril, chief data architect for Nielsen Company, shares how we can flip the equation so that the challenge of big data becomes more of an opportunity for actionable insights.

IBM BLU Acceleration

Blog| by Crysta Anderson

How do you find diamonds in your data? That’s a major focus of most big data and analytics projects. Everyone wants to...

How do you find diamonds in your data? That’s a major focus of most big data and analytics projects. Everyone wants to more effectively sift through piles of dusty data and find the value hidden within. You know the type: gems that help answer key questions about your...

Big Data Use Cases

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Media and entertainment companies are in the midst of a fundamental shift in audience engagement. Traditionally, the...

Media and entertainment companies are in the midst of a fundamental shift in audience engagement. Traditionally, the best way to reach key audiences was to broadcast to millions of people. But in the age of streaming content, social media, and mobile devices, audiences are...